Marcus Tullius Cicero,
Letters to Atticus — 2.16 (XLII)
“ In the first place, from what you had said in your previous letter—"that you had heard from a friend of his [1] that a proposal was going to be made which would satisfy everybody"—I had feared some very sweeping measure, but I don't think this is anything of the sort. In the next place, by way of consolation, I persuaded myself that the hope of a distribution of land is now all centred on the Campanian territory. [2] That land cannot support more than 5,000, 50 as to give ten iugera apiece: [3] the rest of the crowd of expectants must necessarily be alienated from them. ”
